Skip tracing
Skip tracing tells you who lives there. We tell you which homes to call.
For call centers, appointment setters and sales floors: the owner on title, their own mobile with its line type, and a Do Not Call flag on every number. Send us what you dial and put our homes next to your current list.
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Example- Owner
- Linda
- Phone
- (602) ••• ••14 Mobile
- Roof age
- 20+ years from the last roof permit
- In the home
- About 10 years
- Do Not Call
- Not on the list
Example record. Not a real home or person.
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What a floor pays for
Not records. Appointments per hour on the phones.
- Cost per appointmentWhat the list and the caller hours cost, divided by the appointments they set. The number every other one feeds.
- Connects per caller hourHow often a caller reaches a person. Wrong, dead and shared numbers eat this first.
- Owner, or whoever lives thereA tenant or a past owner cannot say yes to a roof, panels or a new system. The owner on title can.
- A Do Not Call flag on every numberFlagged before it reaches the dialer, so the floor never has to scrub it again.
- Line typeMobile or landline, on every number, so the dialer and the script know what they are calling.
- The homes, not just the namesFilters a vertical sells on: roof age, solar with no battery, new owners, storm-hit streets.
Skip trace or a calling list
Same address. A different question.
| A skip trace run | Scout Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | Your list of names or addresses | The homes worth calling for what you sell |
| Tells you | Who is linked to the address | Whether the person is the owner on title |
| Numbers | Every number found, ranked or not | The owner’s own mobile first, with line type and a Do Not Call flag |
| You judge it by | Match rate | Appointments per caller hour on your own dialer |
The free sample
Send us what you dial. Dial ours next to it.
- Ask for a free sampleName, email and mobile, plus how many people dial and where your numbers come from today.
- Tell us what you dialOur team texts you. Reply with the ZIPs or the area your floor calls, and what you sell.
- Dial both, side by sideSame callers, same hours, half your current list and half ours. Count appointments, not matches.
Skip tracing guides
For calling floors. What a floor should measure, and how to keep a list dialable.
- Homeowner phone lists for call centers: what the file has to carryA dialer-ready homeowner file is a spec, not a vendor: 9 fields from the owner on title to line type and DNC scrub date. How to check any vendor on a sample.
- Call center data providers: three kinds of vendor, one way to compare themList brokers, skip-trace platforms and signal-built homeowner files price, match and refresh differently. How each sells to a call center, and 5 questions to compare.
- How many dials per appointment? Multiply four rates, then divideThere is no industry rate to quote. Dials per appointment is the product of your connect, right-party, set and held rates — the method, and a calculator.
- What is a good contact rate? Name the denominator firstFour different numbers get called contact rate, so published benchmarks compare nothing. How to define yours, what moves it, and the one figure we measured.
- List hygiene for call centers: the working routineThe list hygiene routine that keeps an outbound floor dialing: dedupe, DNC and litigator scrubs, dead-number replacement, suppression, and reload cadence.
- Verified mobile numbers for homeowners: what “verified” means and who sells themWhere call centers buy verified homeowner mobile numbers in 2026: the four meanings of “verified”, prices from $0.02 a hit, and a 100-row sample test.
- Wireless vs landline homeowner lists: the flag that runs the whole dayCell phone lists for homeowners: why the wireless flag sets the rules, connect rate and dialer mode, how vendors identify a mobile, and how to verify a sample.
- DNC scrub cost: per lookup vs subscription compliance vendorsA DNC or litigator scrub publicly costs $0.01 to $0.15 per lookup, or $49 to $199/month on subscription. Why buying pre-scrubbed data changes the math.
- TCPA-compliant homeowner leads: what the phrase can and cannot promiseNo purchased list is “TCPA compliant” on its own. What the statute and FCC rules require, consent-based versus cold, wireless, DNC scrubbing, litigator lists.
- Skip tracing for solar and roofing teams: a practical guideSkip tracing for solar and roofing call centers: owner-matched phones, DNC scrubbing, batch files vs the API, and what makes a list dialer-ready, not a data dump.
Skip tracing guides
Buying skip tracing. Services, bulk runs, APIs and what a run really costs.
- The best skip tracing software for call centers in 2026idiCORE, Melissa, DealMachine, BatchData, PropStream and Scout Data compared for call centers: right-party contacts, DNC, dead numbers and cost at dialer volume.
- Skip tracing services compared for call centers: the five contract terms that decide it9 skip tracing services compared for call centers in 2026: minimums, billed misses, account access and volume tiers, from $0.02 a hit to $2,000 a month.
- Bulk skip tracing: how call centers actually run itBulk skip tracing for call centers in five steps, from file prep and owner matching to DNC scrub and dead-number replacement. Pricing and a one-week vendor test.
- Skip tracing cost calculator: what a working contact really costsInteractive calculator for bulk skip tracing costs — plug in list size, per-record price, match rate, and working-number rate to see your true cost per dialable contact.
- Skip tracing API pricing: published per-lookup rates comparedPublished skip tracing API rates run from $0.02 a hit to $1.97 a query. Tracerfy, Whitepages, Trestle, BatchData and Searchbug compared at list volume.
- How accurate is skip tracing? Match rates, explained honestlyWhy advertised match rates mislead, what right-party contact actually measures, and how to test any skip tracing vendor — including us — on your own records.
- What is skip tracing? The definition, and where it stopsSkip tracing resolves a person from an anchor you already hold, then attaches current contact points. What it is, what it is not, and what it should cost.
- Skip tracing vs data append: priced by what you already knowAn append adds fields to an identity you supply. A skip trace has to work the identity out first. That difference explains the price and the failure modes.
- How to find a homeowner’s phone numberFrom a property address to the owner’s phone: how the owner match works, why match rate is the wrong number to judge, and the compliance check before you dial.
Skip tracing guides
The tools people compare. Credentialed bureaus and pay-per-search tools, one by one.
- idiCORE alternatives and pricing: how it compares to TLO, Accurint and TracersWhat idiCORE costs and why it has no rate card, how it compares to TLOxp, Accurint, Tracers and DelvePoint, and what a call floor should buy for outbound.
- TLOxp (TransUnion TruLookup) alternatives for bulk dataTLOxp is TransUnion’s credentialed investigative platform: no consumer access, no free version. Who gets in, what sets the price, what works for bulk data.
- Tracers alternatives: an investigative seat is not a dialer fileTracers is a credentialed investigative platform for legal, collections and recovery work. Why a homeowner dialing floor needs a file instead, and what to buy.
- Accurint alternatives for skip tracing at volumeAccurint needs credentialing and bills per search. Alternatives for teams that need bulk homeowner phones, sorted by job, and when to stay with Accurint.
- BatchSkipTracing alternatives: bulk files, not skip tracingBatchSkipTracing (now BatchData) sells skip-tracing from $2,000/month. Discover why a bulk dialing floor might need ready-to-dial property lists instead.
- Skip Genie alternativesSkip Genie sells a monthly search allotment with per-search overage and credits that do not roll over. Where that model fits, where it breaks, and what to use.
- Direct Skip alternatives: what a hit costs after the dialerDirect Skip charges per hit, from 6 cents on specials, with up to 10 phones per owner. What a hit costs a dialing floor and the alternatives worth testing.
- Tracerfy alternatives: comparing credit-based skip tracingTracerfy uses a credit system scaling from $0.12 to $0.24 a hit. Six alternatives depending on whether you need deep traces or bulk append.
- REISkip alternatives: what else charges per match?REISkip charges $0.15 per match. Five alternatives that offer pay-per-hit or better volume economics for investors and outbound teams.
- SkipForce alternatives: what we found when we checkedAs of September 2026 skipforce.com redirects to a different product. What that means if you hold a contract, and how to replace what SkipForce was hired for.
- SmartSkip alternativesTop alternatives to SmartSkip for tracing property owners and obtaining verified contact info. Compare pricing models and list quality.
- PrimeTracers alternatives: when a cheap match is not a dialable listPrimeTracers sells skip tracing at $0.03 to $0.07 per match in its app and by API from $199/month. What a match leaves out for a call center, and where to look.
- PropStream skip tracing cost: the per-record fee on top of the subscriptionPropStream charges per-record skip trace credits on top of the monthly subscription. The real cost structure and when a flat list beats the combination.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between skip tracing and a list built for calling?
Skip tracing starts from a record you already hold and finds the people and phone numbers linked to it. A list built for calling starts from the homes worth calling for what you sell, and gives the owner on title with their own mobile first. Skip tracing tells you who lives there; we tell you which homes to call, whether it is the owner, and whether the mobile is live.
How should a call center compare skip tracing services?
On its own dialer, not on a match rate. Split the next calling block: the same callers and the same hours, half on the current source and half on the new one. Compare connects per caller hour, owners reached, wrong and dead numbers, and appointments per 1,000 dials. The source that sets appointments for less wins.
Does a Do Not Call flag make dialing mobiles compliant?
No. A Do Not Call flag tells you which numbers are on the registry; it does not replace the consent rules for autodialed or prerecorded calls to mobiles. Check your calling program with your own counsel.
Can we try it before we buy?
Yes. Ask for a free sample of your market and dial it next to your current list. Buying goes through a short call with our team; there is no self-serve sign-up.